Obamanation...abomination!

It's another gloomy day in Chicagoland and that's usually when the churning clouds also bring into mind a swirl of issues I feel so passionately about. Last night's presidential debate came and went but I never heard a word of it. My oldest one... with his budding conscience about social concerns was glued to the TV all throughout the said forum. When asked what he had gleaned from it, he answered, "Nothing I already know, mom. If I am able to vote today, my choice is the same." Frowning, I asked him which it is because just like the relatively large number of students jumping into the growing frenzied bandwagon of Barack Obama in colleges and small towns, he had once declared "our" house for Obama...to which, of course, Da Man (my hubby) was close to hysterics why it couldn't be even if his life depended on it!

I know with our firstborn, setting him off on the defensive is the wrong course of action to turn his head around so I sat with him another day and we had our own little informal debate. I didn't realize how hard it was to talk "teen" until we got to the "meatiest" part of our debacle. He's a smart one, I tell you! I guess my genes somehow got through! hahaha! He had valid arguments but I was quietly smiling all along...not too smugly, or I knew I was going to put him off. We rarely, if ever, go one on one with social topics. Personal ones, geez! I should have listened to my uncle when he advised me to, at least, consider psychology when every other member of my family was trying to convince me to go into Medicine if not into religious life ---to which my dad would burst out laughing...he knew me too much!

I used to be on every club there was in school, save for the chorus. I was the team captain of our school's debate team, I had gold in our National Private Schools' Assoc. extemporaneous speaking contest (national level) way back when I was in 3rd yr high school and it astonished me how well Josh held his own until we got to my last question? 'If you don't like war so much and lament the deaths of these courageous soldiers we have who had "chosen" to be where they were meant to be at a specific time in their lives, how do you feel about killing unknowing individuals who were never given a choice at all?' To this, he paused and looked at me straight in the eye saying, 'To that, do you mean euthanasia?' (See, I'm starting to be proud of this boy....for him to even know the word quite took me aback!) But I said 'No, it's more than that. What I meant was abortion...the killing of innocent life even before they got a chance to live.'

'You mean to say Obama supports abortion? He said he's pro-choice.' And there lies the confusion, my friends. Pro-choice....for whom? Needless to say, after citing numbers to Josh, he was appalled; 4,000 soldiers have been killed in the middle east conflict and by terrorists while 4,000 defenseless fetuses are mutilated and sucked out of what should have been their haven before their birth...their mothers' wombs. The truth had dismayed my son, thinking he's going to see "history made" with America embracing the first African-American president. We still couldn't be sure how this election may turn out but God forbid we become accomplices in digging ourselves to hell!

There are greater issues at hand, you might say. I was left wondering after the stock market crashed and the bailout plan was signed if this is somehow a manifestation that God had had enough of our greed and love for money, which many call and has proven to be the root of all evil. America has become a "skeleton mill"......which would you prefer, the sturdy grown skeleton of a soldier, a woman molested and trashed aside, the victim of gay lynching or the unborn whose perfection was molded by God's hands?

I saw a print on a t-shirt last week that said, "When environmentalists start saving babies, I'll start saving trees!" How has our world come to this? I still remember an argument I had with one cardiologist at work years back when he was upset to learn my husband breeds fighting cocks. He kept telling me it's inhumane to breed them and have them killed in a cockfight! Up to this day, I couldn't imagine what his answer could have been to my question because his eyes blazed and he walked away from me---I asked, 'What's more inhumane to you...chickens bred for cockfighting, or the killing of unborn babies?' (By the way, after my "upheaval in faith" my husband has since put his whole breed into auction in the Philippines.)

Abortion occurs when the life of a human being ends before birth. Miscarriages are referred to as "spontaneous abortions". Then there's "induced abortion" when the preborn child is robbed of life by another human being. But abortion is already legal here in America, you might argue. And well, it is. Other than the most hideous type, yes. It was the beginning of the unraveling of faith in America and the advent of immoral proliferation of our generation. In 2003, President Bush signed a bill prohibiting a late-term abortion procedure or 'partial birth abortion'. The two women involved in the original court cases that brought about abortion, Norma McCorvey (Roe) in Roe vs. Wade and Susan Cano (Doe) in Doe vs. Bolton---have publicly renounced their roles and are now pro-life. These two women, once fallen, had taken courage and rose in faith. They are actively participating in efforts to reverse the abovementioned decisions. There are approximately 1.4 documented performed abortions yearly in the country today...as I said, roughly 4,000. Daily! Doesn't that weigh just as much on your shoulders as the more than 4,000 killed in Iraq?

If you ask me, every one of our killed hero in Iraq would be insulted to be questioned of their presence and bravery there....they had made a choice to be there. It was their conviction that it was their calling to be there and defend our country's freedom. They were there to stand for us who value our freedom just as much but couldn't heft a gun to our shoulders and look the enemy in the eye. That was their choice and their vocation...we should be proud, grateful and truly honored for their courageous decisions. How about the 4,000 killed not by bullets nor shrapnels but by scalpels; sentenced to die by their own mother's choice. What choice do they have? Which side are you on? Is it too hard to decide? What about the mother? Doesn't she have the right to know HOW to save her soul? I'm not my brother's keeper, you'll surely say. Yes, but aren't you God's own? Isn't she? Isn't her unborn child? God had said:"Whatsoever you do to these, the least of your brothers,that you do unto me." Would you rather enjoy and turn a blind eye today and face the verdict at the Gates? That is, if your life merits getting on the "right" bus!!!

Although we have more issues pinned on our presidential hopefuls' backs, do we put more weight on gold than that which God had gifted us---Life? What about the mother's soul? Isn't it our Christian and moral obligation to attempt to save an errant one? Are you ready to face an abomination like none ever experienced before? Then you, too, can jump in the "Obamanation" bandwagon!
Or you could think like an idealistic and morally budding 14-year old and go for Life!

***Photo courtesy of the National Right to Life pamphlet, "A Baby's First Months". www.nrlc.org***